Ugliness Quotes - Page 12

• I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

  Gerard Way

  Perspective, Honest

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• Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Heart, Land

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• Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Beautiful, Ugly, Ifs

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• Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Vanity, Wealth, Virtue

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• Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

  Richard Steele

  Ugly, Honest, Fortitude

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator”, p.55

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• How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.

  Amelia Earhart

  Choices, Soul, Dull

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• The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

  Voltaire

  Men, Mind, Malevolence

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.197, Penguin

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• A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

  C. S. Lewis

  Simple, Extinction, Achieve

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

  John Lennon

  Children, Eye, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
  We forget the easiness of free beauty
  Lying sad right around the corner,
  Only an instant removed,
  Unnoticed and squandered.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Lying, Busy, Forget

  "Serious Business". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

  Philip Mallory Conley

  Imagination, Focus, Want

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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Bullying, Writing, Mean

  Source: frankviola.org

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• Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Two, People

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing, a health thing, or an I wish I had someone or something in my life thing. We all know some level of pain, so I like to see the ugliness of characters. It's a side that we show, only when we strip down in the bathroom mirror.

  Michael K. Williams

  Pain, Character, Wish

  Source: collider.com

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• Trump provides a more direct and arrogant persona that produces the ugliness of a society ruled entirely by finance capital and savage market values, one that prides itself on the denigration of others as well as of justice, passion, and equality.

  Henry Giroux

  Passion, Pride, Justice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.

  Don McLean

  Art, War, Men

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• I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal with the ugliness. Like, I know that as a kid, that I found - I think I learned this a bit from my mother - that if I could be as warm around strangers, no matter how strange or what different environment I was in, that people tended to be warm back.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

  "Dave Matthews: An Unlikely Rock Star At The Crossroads". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2010.

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• Violence never quashed violence because if you're equipped to do violence then you'll continue that passage. Let's say Nazis, if Nazis they be, have got a profoundly ugly form of thought and of actions, why match that? Antifa's ugliness is no better than the ugliness of the far right.

  Penny Rimbaud

  Ugly, Violence, Action

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

  James Vance

  Read Between The Lines, Stories, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

  Gregory Benford

  Contraceptives

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• When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

  Laozi

  People, Evil, World

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• Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Air, Medicine

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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